It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires

Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture; they will find it in their natural--their destined occupation.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Who can know her, and himself, and entertain much hope? Who can see and know such a creature, and not love her to distraction? She has all the softness that does not imply weakness... she is not made to be the admiration of everybody, but the happiness of one.